Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1887-07-07

that have preceded US. 1t is the con-
test Of labor and capital. This contest
is not new one; it has existed ever
since Adam was driven from the garden
of Eden and hidden to earn his bread by
the sweat of his brow. He did this IN
til his family had grown large enough to
raise grain and stock when abandoned
his claim and bought his flour and meat.
From that day to this there has been a
contest between labor and capital
Hitherto despotic power has been on the
side Of capital. 1t has always been easy
to buy or hire ignorant muscle. Here
after, destotism having lost its power
and personal liberty having been achieved
capital must look for an ally to the 10
telIigence of men and to intelligence con
troled by az enlightened conscience
While capital will often buy success it
will more frequently fail Intelligence
aud conscience are more difficult to buy
than muscle The time is coming when
intelligence will ask by what process an
honest man can accumulate sixty mil
hon OF capital 10 single life time and
the answer must satisfy CO science as
we'll as mind. The time is coming be-
fore many years when there will be NO
public land for our young men, the
question will then be asked, by what
process have immense tracks of land been
taken from the many and given to the
few. The answer must satisfy the mind
and heart of men. If the conscience is
satisfied that those holding it obtained it
honestly the intelligence Of men controle
by conscience will teach them that they
should retain it. These questions will
be forced to an issue before many years
The coming generation are liable to have
revolution 10 thought and action as
important as any which have gore be
fore it. Possibly this issue may BE-
deferred until we Of silvery locks have
passed off the theater Of life. Perhaps
we, in this sleepy hollow of the Pacific
coast, may not have our quiet habits
disturbed by these considerations
What need have We to ruffle the smooth
sea upon which our lives are gliding with
qu stions Of state craft and political
economy. We have homes embowered
in shade and fruit aud flowers, We
have climate unsurpassed 10 any
country and resources unrivaled in any
cline. The story Of the pilgrim fathers
landing on the bleak new England shores
is read with curious interest as matters
Of history in town where the grass is
ever green and flowers may be gathered
almost if not quite every month in the
year. 1t is good fortune for an ener
getic man to be in this country. Between
the Bitter Root mountains on the east
and the Pacific ocean on the west will be
state equal to any other 10 the Union
Everything which man needs is here
and can be obtained if be knows what
he wants and has energy to reach for it.
Docs he desire mineral wealth, yonder
mountains abound in gold, silver, galena
and mica and other precious metals.
Does he seek water power with which to
move factories. they are all around US. Is
he seeking grazing lands. the native
grasses upon our foot hills and mountain
ranges are abundant and nutricnus.
Does he prefer other vari'ies of agricul
tural lands, he may choose our valleys for
fruit or our uplauds for grain and raise
abundant crops on either. In our modest
city of Lewiston at the head of navigable
waters. We shall, when navigation is open
to the sea, have the distributing trade Of
an area of country hundreds of miles in
extent. Its growth aud development
will continue for centuries; further gen,
erations will see thespot upon which We
now gather the center Of large and
prosperous city. You observe that
place Lewiston's greatness with future gen
erations. The present seem contented with
their happy lot. Our natural advantages
make life easy. While in the valley of the
nile, the richest of all foreign countries
they are obligedto rely upon an annual
flood to enrich the soil We have the rich
al'uvial deposits ofthe Clearwater brough,
to our very doors twice month. While
new Boston's are multiplying throughout
the country, Lewiston has become the
modern venice Of the times. While IN the
marts Of the east tn. people follow the
ancient windibgs of their COW paths for
streets, Lewiston has thorouyhfares with
every curve and corner lots at all angles.
While in Philadelphia the people stand
with uncovered heads in the presence of
the iron chair in which Washington sat
and bow With cronic venera,lon in the
church where in revolutionary times the
British cavalry stabbed their horses with
equal respects for ancient greatness, We
preserve with sacred care the pack sheds
ot early times and erect our temple of
justice within the moth eaton aud moss
covered .enements Of '62. With unique
genius We preserve our streets and side
walks from pl.beau feet by building rival
towns at convenient distances between the
limits of our corporation and the produc-
ing region around Us. Within eighty
miles of the richest mining region in the world
where five thousand men need the things We
have to sell With generosity unrivaled in song
or story We refrain from all Efforts to open
way whereby they mightcome to US or We 20
to them. prefering rather the prosperity Of
rival towns than the profits Of trade or the
Of riches, As the G reek in his